River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-08-11

Forest fires are reported raging at
Cheboygan, Mich, destroying much
valuable timber.
Six men were killed in an election
fight at Manchester, Ky.
Kentucky Republicans made gains of
II 800 in SO counties.
jelly immigration was the heaviest
but one on record.
MoGarigle is at the st. John home
stead in Ontario.
Congressman Robertson, of New
Orleans, is dead.
In THE EAST.
The Catholic Total Abstinence
Union Of America had its annual session at
/ uiladelphia, on the 9TH. committee was
/ appointed to pt6paie plan for celebrating
/ the jubilee Of Pope Leo Kill 1t INCLUDES
I the following: Z. j. MagUire OF Chicago;
I A. Cairn. Illinois: Rev. r. +. Walsh I'm
diana; j. b. Thompoon. Louisville; vii
/ liam Manning Ohio: T. V Povderlv
+ Scranton Pa y. o. O'Renlv, St. Paul; J.
4 A. Donnelly, Wisconsin. The annual cleo
I ton Of officers resulted: President Rev
+ Thomas }. COnaly OF Worcester Mass:
! vice president, Rev. Thomas f. Walsh OF
4 Notre Dame college, Indiana; treasurer,
/ Rev. Phillip A. Nolan of Philadelphia
/ Rev NJ. +. Murphy of Saltwater. MINI,
/ was elected PROVINCIAL vice president of the
/ Milwaukee district. The next meeting
will be he'd in Boston ia August, lG5S
Among the resolutions adopted was the
/ following: Resolved, As an additional
means OF furthering our grand, our noble
and holy undertaking, that the union re
asa1f
I of cadet corps aud the semi-centeunial cele-
bration IN April. lSSS of the signing OF the
I pledge of our national temperance apostle,
/ Father Theodore Matthew.
When Sherman w. Knevals. law
partner of President Arthur arrived at New
/ York from Europe by the Servia Sunday.
1 he was met by the announcement that his
Gully son, Russell W, - years old. was
/ dead. Young Knevals was found dead in
his bed that morning. He probably died
/ from beart disease. air Nnevals ST. had
len on flying trip TO Europe. Surrogate
Rollins accompanied bin. and When he
touched the warf be was first told of the
death of his mother, who died in New
Hampshire few days ago.
A vicious storm was encountered ut
Franklin, Pa, Saturday evening. dong "A
vast amount of damage. The western part
of the city was inundated. A l500O barrel
tank OF oil belonging To the Eclipse Oil
company, was fired 10y fash of lightning
and for time threatened the destruction Of
the entire oil works. the largest in the
world. The burning oil formed a pool
against The tracks of the New York, Penn
sylvania q Ohio and the Lake Shore rail
road tracks, delaying all trains. The loss
by the fire will reach 10000
Between and 3 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon a terrific rain aud hail storm and
cyclone passed over the regiou south OF
Knoxville, Pa, extending through the
edge of Deeifield township and Chatham.
Grain was levelCd 20 the ground, aud
many forest and orchard trees we've torn
up by the roots. Great loss must be sus-
tJiued by farmers III the track of this
devastating wind storm.
Col john H. Cochrane. of Newark.
y. j., well known Grand Army of the Re
public man, has been missing about two
W eIs He resigned his position with the
New Jersey Central railroad and said he
was going TO accept "A clerlsship at Wash
ington, but he has not reached hat city. He
Is - years old and was mentioned for
bravery in several battlts of The wac.
The Vermont state grange of the
patrons of husbandry have fled with the
interstate commerce commission a com
plant against the Boston a. Lowell
Railroad Company, and certain of its
Z connections for charging higher freight
rates between Boston aud certain Yer
mont stations than between Boston and
/ Montreal on the Boston a Detroit
The Casle Garden, New York. report
of immigration for July, makes the largest
July but one in the history of Immigration,
p, 50 people arrived against 80 in July
last year. From January {, Isl to August
/ I, the arrivals wete 2',999, against l13, l4l
for the same period last year.
Buffalo. \. T.. reports August 4, lhe
hottest day ever known in that CITY. In the
street, in the shade, at 10 O'Clock the
/ thermometer % deg, and at 3 p. m. the
! signal service officer recorded 9 $40 deg,
the highest since the establishment of that
bureau there.
Pardaw Warslev, noted Union spy
of the la te war died at Foster Brook, ~ Y.
on the 5th. His favorite plan was to travel
within the confederate lines as a peddler.
He was chiefly employed by Gen Butler aud
Gen. Augur
President Harris. of the Miners
Association in Pennsylvania believes that
if the coke operators do not live up to their
agreement relative to a sliding scale of
vases there will lie another strike.
BY freight train wreck at Cone
WACO bridge, near York, Pa, Monday the
flagman was killed The wreck was due to
the weak condition of the bridge, which
was undergoing repairs.
Daniel Rose of Montgomery, Pa,
while on his way to be married fell from
the cars at Clarks Ferry, receiving fatal
| injuries. He died in the Harrisburg
hospital Monday.
On Tuesday there were II cases of
heat prostration reported in GrooKlyn, of
which two were fatal. Four cases of sun
stroke were reported in New York, one
being fatal.
The st. James end Eastern hotels at
Dunkirk, " V, were totally destroyed by
fire on the 9Th. thought to be incendiary
work. Loss $4,000, small insurance
Mrs. Cleveland with her mother and
an aunt are at Marion, Mass, the guests of
Gen. A. W. Greeley, of the signal service
who has mmerresidence there.
The stallion Norwood Chief, aged
y years, valued at $4,000 and owned by
Willis. of Patterson, y. J., dropped dead at
Elmira, y. Y, Thursday.
The chief of police at New Haven.
Conn, was fatally injured by tough
whom he had arrested Sunday afternoon.
~ a fit of jealousy Geo. Whelsieen.
aged 20 killed his wife aged 30 and himself,
at Bridgeport Conn, on Monday.
At Syracuse, n. Y, The Frazer &
James non foundry, employing $50 men
was destroyed by fire Aug. 4.
At Portsmouth, n. H., the Democrat
made clean sweep in the municipal cleo
/ ton August ,.
The first August frost was visible at
/ Wellsville, y. Y, ON the eth.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
A statement prepared at the treasury
| department shows that during the month Of
| July there was decrease of $685. 74o in
\ the cash in the treasury and net increase
I offs i,U45, LIB in the circulation. The decrease
/ and increase was mainly in gold certificates.
7 The decrease in the netioDal bank notes
! amounted to 5; 5;i ,0j1.